Digipak: Creation of Back Cover

For the concept of this digipak, which was formed around the theme of "Just-A-Day". It features the same band members, in the same corresponding colours, in similar poses to the front cover, however, they are holding instruments in the place of a toothbrush, butter knife, etc. (Although in Ben's case, we could not mimic an everyday object for his drum kit, so we used drum sticks to replace his knife (in the front cover image he is cutting bread). After creating the front cover, we wanted it to be in the same "cut-out" style. However, we had some difficulties with figuring out how to do this again. I had done the first "cut-out" style on Dylan's (yellow) picture as a tester, and then I did the same with the others for the front cover, however I did not record down the levels of saturation, tone mixers, or steps to take for a coinciding effect. Because of his, a problem rose when doing the back cover, as I had forgotten how to create the same effect.

This image shows the lay out of the back cover would be like. The yellow image is from the front cover, showing how the same effect needs to be translated to the others. Whilst mixing colour channels and saturation levels, we managed to create a similar effect, once the "cut-out" filter was placed over the image. But, no matter how many times we did this, they result would be the same; the shadows on the face blended with the background, creating a flat silhouette. This was troublesome, as it hid the identity of our band member and did not co-ordinate with the other images. Even though we figured out how to do the same effect eventually, the yellow image, due to the un-preferable lighting of the original, always turned out with a person without a face.

Therefore, we decided to draw on the facial features uses the pen on photo shop. We are already behind schedule and this was the quickest way, although unprofessional.

The above image shows the final four images that will be used for the back cover, with instruments.

We also made sure that for the back cover, we would have the copyright logo, barcoade, and DVD logo to conform to conventions of real life products, as well as other factors such as songwriter and producer creditations.

Another element that should be on the back cover of the digipak is a record label logo. Whilst me and Jack continued to work on the magazine poster, Jam did a few draft copies of a fake record label logo.

(The image below was taken from google and used for the logo above)